Meanings
alternative Chan-chiang · alternative Chankiang
- A prefecture-level city of Guangdong, China.
On April 4, he made the hop from Haiphong to Fort-Bayard (present-day Chanchiang, China) but almost ditched and had to lighten the plane by throwing things overboard.
[1989, Patrick Reynolds, Tom Shachtman, “Smith and Libby”, in The Gilded Leaf, Little, Brown and Company, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 1551 more example
Personnel stood in formation as they bid farewell to their family and friends during a ceremony at the port to send the cargo ship and its crew off on its journey to Zhanjiang, southern China, where the ACMEX maneuvers will be held, an epa-efe journalist reports.
2018 October 17, “Philippine navy vessel to take part in exercises in China”, in EFE, archived from the original on 17 Oct 2018Synonyms: Tsamkong
Synonyms & antonyms
proper nounA prefecture-level city of Guangdong, China.
Origin
- Mandarin湛江
- EnglishZhanjiang
From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 湛江 (Zhànjiāng).
More words from Mandarin
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Chinese Cantonese 湛江
- 湛江 (zaam³ gong¹)city in Guangdong, China
Chinese Mandarin 湛江
- 湛江 (Zhànjiāng)city in Guangdong, China
Hungarian Csancsiang
- Csancsiangcity in Guangdong, China
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Zhanjiang. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Zhanjiang
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